Are you dreading political conversations with your family this Thanksgiving? Why?

How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives.

Oh, Lordy. It is that time again. Thursday is Thanksgiving -- the official kickoff event of the 2008 holiday season. For a lot of progressives, these festivities also mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives over the next six weeks than is strictly good for our blood pressure, stress levels, or continued sanity.

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Gotta love em
Glenn Pendergrass about about 6 years ago
Oh, GREATâ¦ itâs that time againâ¦ the holidays. My liberal family and friends coming over and lovâen me up... oh joy. I wonder how long theyâll tiptoe around the real issuesâ¦ politics, religionâ¦ and are oysters even safe to eat this time of year? Why is she stuffing my favorite bird with shellfish??? Surfân turf is one thing but surfân foul donât even sound goodâ¦ well Iâm not going to be the one to open that can of wormsâ¦ better find out what teams are playing today so I can change the subjectâ¦ Jeez, I hate organized sports.
Why is it that my allotment of liberals, have to go through at least 3 bottles of wine or a half dozen beers before they can start talking about anything interesting? Of course by then theyâve got their buzz-on and itâs not going to be a conversation. Itâs going to be whoâs âKing of the Soap Boxâ this time??? I might as well gird-up... âHoneyâ¦ want a glass of wine before they get here?â (ting ting ting)
Sometimes I wonder what they really think about usâ¦ I mean we are just talking about political opinions arenât we??? Hell, weâre all dingbatsâ¦ but what if they really thought we wereâ¦ insufferableâ¦ paranoidâ¦ or worse? No, quit thinking like thatâ¦ they are our friends and family and if they truly thought that we were some sort of âGomersâ smoked-up on wacky tabackyâ¦ they wouldnât waste their time with usâ¦ at least I wouldnât.
Soâ¦ once they got their buzz-onâ¦ what will our loved ones want to talk (shout) about???
â¢Conservatives hate Americans.
All that conservatives want to do is hunt down poor immigrants and ship them out in cattle cars. We want to tear children away from their mothers and build a wall that can be seen from space so that we can stop all immigration. We want to slash social programs so that we can watch little children die of starvation.
âOh pleaseâ¦ itâs illegal immigration we want to stop and no one wants to see children go hungryâ¦ anyone else want a beer while Iâm up?â
(burrrpâ¦ oysters??? I wonder if I gave them the stuffingâ¦ would they take it home with them or stop and donate it somewhere??? I hope they take it homeâ¦ no one deserves thisâ¦ burrrp... yup... oysters)
â¢Conservatives want to declare martial law.
All that conservatives want to do is ââ¦killâem before they multiplyâ¦â ââ¦blowâem back into the stone ageâ¦â ââ¦bomb bomb bombâ¦ bomb bomb Iranâ¦â We donât have a clue as to what the real threats areâ¦ global warmingâ¦ epidemicsâ¦ superbugsâ¦ you know, those problems that no single country on the face of the planet can do anything about by itselfâ¦ those problems that will take the entire planet to resolve if in fact they can be resolvedâ¦ those problems that canât be properly addressed because of the idiots that keep blowing things up all the time.
âGuysâ¦ all Iâm saying is we have a swamp that needs to be drainedâ¦ itâs full of snakes, piranhas and alligatorsâ¦ and all weâre given is a bucket, a siphoning hose and a pair of skivvies to go do the job. What??? Nooooâ¦ I donât think all the swamps should be drained and the wildlife killed offâ¦ it was a metaphorâ¦ here, have some more of this stuffing.â
â¢Conservatives pray at the alter of free market capitalism.
âManâ¦ I donât even know what that means. What I do know is that the free market is killing usâ¦ poison in foodsâ¦ lead in toysâ¦ how many of you guys are buying gas from Exxon/Mobilâ¦ 1, 2, 3, 4â¦ you too? I donâtâ¦ What about Walmartâs or Samâs? Are you spending your free market money there? I donât care that theyâre hugeâ¦ Sam Walton lied to usâ¦ rememberâ¦ âWe will only sell products made by Americanâs for Americanâsâ¦â yeah right. How about your shoesâ¦ Nikeâ¦ Adidasâ¦ wasnât there something about child labor issues awhile back? All that âfree marketâ means is that youâre âfreeâ to forget who screwed you last in the âmarketââ¦ how many of you guys still have an account with any of the banks that got bailed out? Not meâ¦ are you going to buy a Ford... GM... Chrysler??? Not me... Those poor union workers making a gazillion dollars an hour poppin rivits... free market my... pass me that stuffing.â
â¢Conservatives hate our troops.
All that conservatives want to do is keep the soldiers away from their familiesâ¦ they donât give them any armor or ammunitionâ¦ and they force the soldiers to buy their ownâ¦
âGuysâ¦ what if you wanted to buy some body armorâ¦ where would you go to get it??? I didnât think soâ¦ Were we underprepared for a desert war being fought house-to-house? YESâ¦ especially seeing that our only theaters of war since WWII have been fought in junglesâ¦ Yeah, I served during Vietnamâ¦ donât even get me started on the lack of VA benefits then or nowâ¦ President Bushâs Vietnamâ¦ 5,000 vs 150,000 please... What? Beans, corn and tomatoes; Itâs called Succotashâ¦ What? Where does it come from? It's Native American I believeâ¦ Wounded Knee??? Nooooâ¦ my family didnât have anything to do with itâ¦ we're from the southâ¦ oh crap... please tell me I didn't just say that!!!" (BEER... I need a BEERâ¦ what's that smell... oysters? awww man... Now that's insufferable) "Is anyone in the bathroom???" Both me and this stuffing needs to go...

no McCain supporters allowed
Peggy about about 6 years ago
I had Thanksgiving dinner with like-minded kind people. No arguing. Didn't have to watch football either. Now that's my idea of a good stress free Thanksgiving celebration.